Wikipedia talk:Comprised of

Bot-generated list?
Is the "bot-generated list" link really at all interesting? It's just a tool that I use that as a side effect of the way I use it happens to be accessible to the world. It's not a list of articles that contain "comprised of", but a list of links to the edit pages of articles that I recently edited (or will soon edit) so that they don't contain "comprised of".

I'd just remove it, but I might be biased, so I thought I'd raise the issue here.

If it's interesting, we can have an actual link to a list of all the articles that contain "comprised of" right now by using a search link, as seen on Lists_of_common_misspellings/Grammar_and_Misc — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giraffedata (talk • contribs) 03:36, 9 February 2015


 * Just trying to aggregate all relevant links on this topic. Who knows why someone might be interested in the current list of names you will be working on. -- Green  C  14:20, 10 February 2015 (UTC)


 * In the unfortunate event of your possibly being unable to perform these corrections, like-minded editors can use the list to continue your fine work, especially if modifications to the program enable anyone to keep it up to date and if sabotage is prevented. Incidentally, I found 14,141 occurrences in all namespaces combined, and 9,139 occurrences with talk pages excluded.  With user pages also excluded, I found 6,096 occurrences.  You might wish to correct those 6,096 occurrences.
 * —Wavelength (talk) 17:04, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * But keep in mind there is no Wikipedia-wide consensus or guideline to eliminate this phrase. There are people who support using it in fact. -- Green  C  17:54, 10 February 2015 (UTC)


 * True. But it's basic Wikipedia that one doesn't need, and should not normally attempt to get, consensus for an edit before making it.  If we ever get a consensus guideline that this phrase has protected status so once it's in an article it has to stay, that would be a valid reason for a person to leave the phrase even if that person believes the article is better without it.  Bryan Henderson (giraffedata) (talk) 16:49, 13 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't think I want to learn about all those other spaces and whether it is appropriate for a person to edit them. I have done Article, Category, and Template, because I'm fairly sure I understand the rules there.  I know at one time for one reason or another, some archive pages showed up in my search, and that's an example of something one doesn't "correct".  I might have made a huge mess.  Bryan Henderson (giraffedata) (talk) 16:49, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Userbox
I have made this userbox so that those users who use the phrase deliberately can identify themselves. Hopefully that would be enough reason that their "comprised of"s will not be "corrected".·maunus · snunɐɯ· 15:09, 17 March 2015 (UTC)